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• • H—ELECTRICITY
  • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
  • H04R—LOUDSPEAKERS, MICROPHONES, GRAMOPHONE PICK-UPS OR LIKE ACOUSTIC ELECTROMECHANICAL TRANSDUCERS; ELECTRIC HEARING AIDS; PUBLIC ADDRESS SYSTEMS
  • H04R25/00—Electric hearing aids
  • H04R25/55—Electric hearing aids using an external connection, either wireless or wired
  • H04R25/556—External connectors, e.g. plugs or modules
• • H—ELECTRICITY
  • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
  • H04R—LOUDSPEAKERS, MICROPHONES, GRAMOPHONE PICK-UPS OR LIKE ACOUSTIC ELECTROMECHANICAL TRANSDUCERS; ELECTRIC HEARING AIDS; PUBLIC ADDRESS SYSTEMS
  • H04R25/00—Electric hearing aids
  • H04R25/65—Housing parts, e.g. shells, tips or moulds, or their manufacture
• • H—ELECTRICITY
  • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
  • H04R—LOUDSPEAKERS, MICROPHONES, GRAMOPHONE PICK-UPS OR LIKE ACOUSTIC ELECTROMECHANICAL TRANSDUCERS; ELECTRIC HEARING AIDS; PUBLIC ADDRESS SYSTEMS
  • H04R25/00—Electric hearing aids
  • H04R25/60—Mounting or interconnection of hearing aid parts, e.g. inside tips, housings or to ossicles
  • H04R25/604—Mounting or interconnection of hearing aid parts, e.g. inside tips, housings or to ossicles of acoustic or vibrational transducers
  • H04R25/606—Mounting or interconnection of hearing aid parts, e.g. inside tips, housings or to ossicles of acoustic or vibrational transducers acting directly on the eardrum, the ossicles or the skull, e.g. mastoid, tooth, maxillary or mandibular bone, or mechanically stimulating the cochlea, e.g. at the oval window
• • H—ELECTRICITY
  • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
  • H04R—LOUDSPEAKERS, MICROPHONES, GRAMOPHONE PICK-UPS OR LIKE ACOUSTIC ELECTROMECHANICAL TRANSDUCERS; ELECTRIC HEARING AIDS; PUBLIC ADDRESS SYSTEMS
  • H04R25/00—Electric hearing aids
  • H04R25/60—Mounting or interconnection of hearing aid parts, e.g. inside tips, housings or to ossicles
  • H04R25/607—Mounting or interconnection of hearing aid parts, e.g. inside tips, housings or to ossicles of earhooks
• • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
  • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
  • Y10T—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
  • Y10T29/00—Metal working
  • Y10T29/49—Method of mechanical manufacture
  • Y10T29/49002—Electrical device making
  • Y10T29/49117—Conductor or circuit manufacturing

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• FIGs. 1 OA- IOC depict another alternate embodiment of the present invention
• Bones 108, 109, and 1 11 of middle ear 105 serve to filter and amplify sound wave 103, causing oval window 112 to articulate, or vibrate, in response to vibration of tympanic membrane 104.
• This vibration sets up waves of fluid motion of the perilymph within cochlea 140.
• Such fluid motion activates tiny hair cells (not shown) inside of cochlea 140.
• Activation of the hair cells causes appropriate nerve impulses to be generated and transferred through the spiral ganglion cells (not shown) and auditory nerve 114 to the brain (also not shown) where they are perceived as sound.
• the coupler 1000 is sealed to one or both of the earphone 1080 and the BTE device 490 as a result of suction / negative pressure gradient between the ambient atmosphere and an atmosphere within the resulting cavity of coupler 1000, instead of or in addition to the use of ad- hesive and/or instead of or in addition to the other types of fits detailed above. Such may be established by gently squeezing the coupler 1000 while it is engaging the BTE device 490 and/or the earphone 1080.
• the acoustic seal formed between the speaker of an earphone ear interface and the microphone 362 and/or the respective earphone ear interface and external component established by the acoustic coupler is about 50% or more, about 55% or more, about 60% or more, about 65% or more, about 70% or more, about 75% or more, about 80% or more, about 85% or more, about 90% or more, about 95% or more or about 100%, about 110% or more, about 125% or more, about 150% or more, about 175% or more, about 200% or more, about 225% or more, about 250% or more, about 300% or more, about 350% or more, about 400% or more, about 450% or more, about 500% or more, about 550% or more, about 600% or more, about 650% or more, about 700% or more, about 800% or more, about 900% or more, about 1000% or more as acoustically sealed as a corresponding acoustic seal resulting from placement of the

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